Yannis Varveris (Greek: Γιάννης Βαρβέρης; 1955 – 25 May 2011) was a Greek poet, critic and translator.[1]

Varveris was born and died in Athens. He read Law at the University of Athens. His first collection of poems was published in 1975. He belongs to the so-called Genia tou 70, which is a literary term referring to Greek authors who began publishing their work during the 1970s, especially towards the end of the Greek military junta of 1967-1974 and at the first years of the Metapolitefsi. He has been awarded the State Book Prize for Criticism in 1996 for his book Κρίση του θεάτρου Γ΄ (1976–1984) and the Cavafy prize (2001) and the poetry prize of literary journal Diavazo (2002) for his poetry collection Στα ξένα.[2]

Works

Poetry

• Έν φαντασία και λόγω (In Imagination and Word), 1975
• Το ράμφος (The Beak), 1978
• Αναπήρων Πολέμου (Disabled Veterans), 1982
• Ο θάνατος το στρώνει (Death Spread It Around), 1986
• Πιάνο βυθού (Piano of the Deep), 1991
• Ο κύριος Φογκ (Mister Fog), 1993
• Άκυρο θαύμα (Miracle Null and Void), 1996
• Ποιήματα 1975-1996 (Poems 1975-1996), 2000
• Στα ξένα (Abroad), 2001
• Πεταμένα λεφτά (Wasted money), 2005
• Ο άνθρωπος μόνος (The man alone), 2009
• Βαθέος γήρατος (Of old age), 2011

Selected essays and criticism

• Κρίση του θεάτρου (1976–1984) (Theater Reviews 1, 1976–1984), 1985
• Κρίση του θεάτρου Β΄ (1976–1984) (Theater Reviews 2, 1976–1984), 1991
• Κρίση του θεάτρου Γ΄ (1976–1984) (Theater Reviews 3, 1976–1984), 1995
• Σωσίβια λέμβος (Lifeboat), 1999
• Κρίση του θεάτρου Δ΄ - κείμενα θεατρικής κριτικής 1994-2003 (Theater Reviews 4, 1994–2003), 2004

Notes

External links

• His entry for the 2001 Frankfurt Book Fair (Greek)
• His page at the website of the Hellenic Authors' Society (Greek) and (English)
• A page at the National Book Centre of Greece